[2] It stood at 97 feet (30 meters) tall, and may have been the oldest white oak in the world.

[4] English evangelist George Whitfield and American clergyman James Davenport preached under it on November 5, 1740 to a crowd of 3,000 during the First Great Awakening.

[6] The 5,500 French troops under General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur marched by in 1781 on their route to Yorktown, Virginia and the decisive battle of the American Revolutionary War.

[6] In its final years, its lower branches were supported by metal bars.

A young white oak grown from an acorn of the old tree was planted in the churchyard.